Microsoft NetMeeting
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Microsoft NetMeeting is a VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing client included in many versions of Microsoft Windows (from Windows 95 OSR2 to Windows XP). It uses the H.323 protocol for video and audio conferencing, and is interoperable with OpenH323-based clients such as Ekiga, and Internet Locator Service (ILS) as reflector. It also uses a slightly modified version of the ITU T.120 Protocol for whiteboarding, application sharing, desktop sharing, remote desktop sharing (RDS) and file transfers. The secondary Whiteboard in NetMeeting 2.1 and later utilizes the H.324 protocol.
Before video service became common on free IM clients, such as Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger, NetMeeting was a popular way to perform video conferences and chatting over the Internet (with the help of public ILS servers).
Since the release of Windows XP, Microsoft has deprecated it in favour of Windows Messenger, although it is still installed by default (Start > Run... > conf.exe). Note that Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger hooks directly into NetMeeting for the application sharing, desktop sharing, and Whiteboard features exposed by each application.
As of the release of Windows Vista, NetMeeting is no longer included and has been replaced by Windows Meeting Space. Windows Meeting Space lacks conferencing features, it only has collaboration features. However it has been demonstrated that NetMeeting can still be installed and run on Windows Vista. [1]
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- NetMeeting home
- Instructions for activating NetMeeting under Windows XP
- Setting up Netmeeting
- Videofrog NetMeeting ILS Scanner & Search Engine
- SIDVault an ILS server
- Microsoft Office Live Meeting (successor of NetMeeting): Comparison of Microsoft Office Live Meeting with other leading webconferencing providers
